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「小姓吉三郎 あらし小六」（四代目） 「八百屋お七 岩井半四郎」（五代目）
Actors Arashi Koroku IV as the Page Kichisaburô (R) and Iwai Hanshirô V as Yaoya Oshichi (L)
「小姓吉三郎 あらし小六」（四代目） 「八百屋お七 岩井半四郎」（五代目）
Shunkôsai Hokushû (Japanese, active 1810–1832)
Publisher: Toshikuraya Shinbei (Toshin) (Japanese)
Publisher: Wataya Kihei (Wataki) (Japanese)
Publisher: Toshikuraya Shinbei (Toshin) (Japanese)
Publisher: Wataya Kihei (Wataki) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1821 (Bunsei 4), 9th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban diptych; 40 x 55 cm (15 3/4 x 21 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.3210.19, 17.3210.21
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 90; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #104
DescriptionDiptych: 17.3210.19 (right sheet), 17.3210.21 (left sheet)
MFA impressions: 11.26635-6 (with background), 17.3210.19VR (17.3210.19, 17.3210.21; without background)
From an album in which the names of the actors were covered with slips of decorative paper.
Play: Sono Mukashi Koi no Higanoko
Theater: Naka
其昔恋緋纈（そのむかしこいのひがのこ）
中
MFA impressions: 11.26635-6 (with background), 17.3210.19VR (17.3210.19, 17.3210.21; without background)
From an album in which the names of the actors were covered with slips of decorative paper.
Play: Sono Mukashi Koi no Higanoko
Theater: Naka
其昔恋緋纈（そのむかしこいのひがのこ）
中
Signed
Shunkôsai Hokushû ga (on each sheet)
春好斎北洲画
春好斎北洲画